SIGACCESS benefits for FY’11:

Member Benefits provided to SIGACCESS Members: Subscription to SIGACCESS newsletter, published three times per year (online) Reduced registration at conferences and workshops sponsored by SIGACCESS Reduced registration at conferences in cooperation with SIGACCESS Access to the following content in the ACM Digital Library:

Proceedings of conferences sponsored by SIGACCESS SIGACCESS Newsletter Proceedings of conferences and workshops in cooperation with SIGACCESS

SIGACCESS-MEMBERS email list

Community Benefits provided by SIGACCESS: Sponsorship of ASSETS conference and other ACM accessibility-related conferences and workshops Advocacy for computing and people with disabilities Advocacy for computing

and people with disabilities, and assistance in the development of policies and procedures for accessibility at the ACM, local, national, and international level.

SIGACCESS Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards at the ASSETS conference

SIGACCESS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility (every other year)

ACCESS-ANNOUNCEMENTS email list for accessibility related information and events

SIGACCESS Scholarship in Computers and Accessibility supporting practitioners, researchers, members of advocacy groups, and individuals with disabilities who are interested in the field of computers and accessibility, to actively participate in the ASSETS conference and gain experience and knowledge from interacting with experts in the field

SIGACCESS website Repository of PhD dissertations and Masters degree theses on accessibility topics

SIGACT benefits for FY'11:

Member Benefits provided to SIGACT Members: Newsletter- SIGACT News, quarterly, print & online subscriptions Access to all SIGACT sponsored and co-sponsored conference proceedings in the

ACM Digital Library. Reduced registration rates at SIGACT-sponsored conferences, and through

reciprocity many other major conferences in theoretical computer science Reduced rate for membership in EATCS (European Association for Theoretical

Computer Science) Notification of critical information through mail and the SIGACT electronic

member mailing list Distinguished Service Award Member Plus packages: SPAA, POPL, STOC, SOCG

 

Community Benefits provided by SIGACT: Publicity: SIGACT web site, Theorynt email, more being planned Conference sponsorships: PODC, SOCG, SPAA, STOC In-cooperation conferences: PODS, SODA, FOCS, POPL, HERCMA Awards and grants: STOC Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award, COLT Best

Student Paper Award, Gödel Prize (w/EATCS), Knuth Prize (w/IEEE TCMFC), Paris Kanellakis Award (w/ACM), Lawler Humanitarian Award (w/ACM), Dijkstra Prize (w/SIGOPS), SODA Best Student Paper Award, STOC Student Travel Awards, STOC Developing Country Researcher Awards, STOC Best Paper Award, Student and third world travel support for FOCS and SODA    

Support for the SIGACT Committee for the Advancement of Theoretical Computer Science

Represents theoretical computer science community to the ACM and beyond.

SIGAda benefits for FY’11:

Member Benefits provided to SIGAda Members: Subscription to SIGAda Ada Letters, published three times per year Reduced registration at conferences sponsored by SIGAda DVD proceedings of SIGAda conference Reduced registration at Ada-Europe conferences Access to the following content in the ACM Digital Library:

o SIGAda conference proceedingso SIGAda Ada Letterso Some conferences held in cooperation with SIGAda

Community Benefits provided by SIGAda: Sponsorship of annual SIGAda Conference Host ARG/WG9 meetings Participation in the evolution of the Ada Programming Language via a Category

C Liaison Agreement with ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG9 SIGAda-ANNOUNCE and Team-Ada mailing lists SIGAda web site, including electronic versions of past Ada Letters Newsletter. Ada Awareness Initiative to promote Ada Outstanding Ada Community Award at SIGAda Conference ACM SIGAda Distinguished Service Award at SIGAda Conference Best Student Paper and Best Paper award at the SIGAda conference Academic grants to the annual SIGAda conference

SIGAPP benefits for FY’11:

Member Benefits provided to SIGAPP Members: Subscription to Applied Computing Review (Applied Computing Review is

planned to be published electronic version in summer of 2010) Reduced registration at conferences sponsored by SIGAPP (SAC). CD-ROM proceedings of SAC Reduced registration at conferences held "in cooperation" with SIGAPP

(list varies from year to year). Access to the following content in the ACM Digital Library: SAC conference proceedings; Applied Computing Review (ACR); Some conferences and workshops held in cooperation with SIGAPP.

Community Benefits provided by SIGAPP: Sponsorship of SAC conference. Best Poster award at the SAC conference. Best Paper awards at the SAC conference. Distinguished Service Award for Outstanding service to SAC. Student travel support to the SAC conference. Travel support for participants at SAC from economically disadvantaged

countries (as defined by ACM) SIGAPP Web site, including old electronic version of Applied Computing

Review (Applied Computing Review is planned to be published electronic version in summer of 2010)

SIGARCH benefits for FY’11:

Member benefits provided to SIGARCH members: Student-travel awards for many SIGARCH conferences Reduced registration rates to at conferences sponsored, co- sponsored, or in

cooperation with SIGARCH *** Electronic or print delivery of Computer Architecture News (CAN), quarterly

newsletter, which includes ISCA and ASPLOS proceedings Access to all SIGARCH material in the ACM Digital Library *** Option to upgrade to various discounted member-plus packages to receive

print copies of additional SIGARCH-sponsored conference proceedings

Community benefits provided to SIGARCH members: Sponsorship of ICS and co-sponsorship of ISCA, SC, ASPLOS, SPAA, PACT,

ANCS, NOCS. In cooperation with Europar, SenSys, GRID, HiPC, HPDC, Co-sponsorship (with IEEE TCCA) of the Eckert-Mauchly award. Sponsorship of the Maurice Wilkes award. Co-sponsorship (with IEEE TCCA) of the ISCA Influential Paper award. Co-sponsorship (with SIGPLAN and IEEE) of the Ken Kennedy award. Sponsorship of the ACM SIGARCH Distinguished Service Award. Sponsorship of the HPC Fellowship.

SIGART benefits for FY’11:

Member Benefits Provided to SIGART Members: Conference proceedings from AAMAS, HRI, and IUI (all on CD-ROM). Reduced registration at the conferences sponsored by SIGART:

* ASE: Automated Software Engineering, Sept. * HRI: Human Robot Interaction, Mar. * IUI: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Jan. * K-CAP: Knowledge Capture, Oct. (odd years) * WI/IAT: Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, Oct.

Reduced registration at conferences held "in cooperation" with SIGART (the list varies from year to year).

Access to the following contents in the ACM Digital Library: * Proceedings of all the SIGART sponsored conferences. * Proceedings of some conferences and workshops held in cooperation with SIGART.

Community Benefits Provided by SIGART: Sponsorship of conferences. Support for Agents Summer Schools in developing countries. Autonomous Agents research award. Best Paper and/or Best Student Paper at some of the conferences sponsored. Travel support for students to SIGART sponsored conferences. Support for AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium. SIGART Web site.

SIGBED benefits for FY’11:

Member Benefits provided to SIGBED Members: Newsletter -Members receive the SIGBED Newsletter, *quarterly,* online only. Bimonthly Newsletter that will be sent via email, starting in 09. Reduced registration at conferences sponsored by SIGBED Access to SIGBED content in the ACM Digital Library ACM SIGBED/SIGSOFT Frank Anger Memorial Student Award given annually

to student members to promote interdisciplinary research.

Community Benefits provided by SIGBED: Sponsorship of EMSOFT, CASES, LCTES, IPSN, SENSYS, and CODES+ISSS

conferences. SIGBED- members and SENSORNET mailing lists Members of the SIGBED community serve on the editorial board of ACM's

publication, "ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems" and "ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks"

SIGBED has taken the initiative to create "Embedded Systems Week" as a premier event with co-location of multiple conferences such as EMSOFT, CASES, and CODES+ISSS

SIGBED has established together with the EMSOFT Conference the “SIGBED EMSOFT Best Paper Award”

SIGCAS benefits for FY’11:

Member Benefits provided to SIGCAS Members: The quarterly online magazine Computers and Society is our major product. C&S

features high-quality articles dealing with social issues of computerization and related technologies, as well as book reviews, information about conferences, and teaching resources. Members have access to the full archive of the online publication and its printed predecessor. One issue per year is printed and mailed to all SIGCAS members. Please see www.computersandsociety.org.

While we do not sponsor our own conference, we participate as an "in cooperation" sponsor of several ACM and non-ACM conferences related to our interests. Members frequently receive special rates or other privileges for these events. The events vary from year to year, but generally include the Conference on Universal Usability, the International Symposium on Technology and Society, the Computer Ethics, Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE) conferences, and others. SIGCAS-sponsored events have taken place at SIGCSE and SIGITE.

SIGCAS presents two awards each year:  The Making a Difference Award and the SIGCAS Outstanding Service award.  

SIGCAS-ANNOUNCE mailing list - includes regular announcements of upcoming conferences and calls for participation.

 SIGCHI benefits for FY'11: Member Benefits provided to SIGCHI Members:

Subscription to interactions magazine, published six times per year On-line access to the archive of the SIGCHI Bulletin Reduced registration at conferences sponsored and co-sponsored by SIGCHI Access to proceedings of SIGCHI-sponsored and co-sponsored conferences in the

ACM Digital Library, as well as selected conference proceedings for other conferences held in-cooperation with SIGCHI

 Community Benefits provided by SIGCHI:

Sponsorship of the leading conferences in the field Support for students through student volunteer and scholarship programs A wide range of electronic forums including over a dozen popular e-mail lists on

topics ranging from public policy to HCI for the Web Support for activities worldwide, including over 65 chapters on 5 continents and

programs to support HCI in developing countries SIGCHI's awards program that recognizes social impact and outstanding

contributions to research and practice in the field SIGCHI's Web site and other on-line resources Support for a variety of volunteer activities addressing issues ranging from public

policy to education to accessibility Cooperation with related Societies (International Federation for Information

Procession (IFIP TC 13); Usability Professionals' Association (UPA))

SIGCOMM benefits for FY'11:

Member Benefits provided to SIGCOMM members:

Print copy of "Computer Communication Review" (CCR), five times a year, including  print proceedings of the annual SIGCOMM conference (http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/ccr)

Monthly e-mail list digest with announcements and lists of SIGCOMM-related conferences

Discounted subscription rate for "ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking" (http://www.acm.org/addpubs)

Discounted registration rate for all SIGCOMM sponsored/co-sponsoredconferences and workshops, and "in cooperation with" events

Access to all SIGCOMM sponsored/co-sponsored conference proceedings in the Digital Library, as well as selected conference proceedings for other conferences held in-cooperation with  SIGCOMM

Community Benefits provided by SIGCOMM: Sponsorship of SIGCOMM, IMC, HotNets, Sensys, ANCS, and CoNEXT

conferences Award for Lifetime Achievement in and Contributions to Data Communications SIGCOMM "Rising Star" award for a young researcher making outstanding

impact early in their career Award for best overall paper at SIGCOMM annual conference Award for best student paper at SIGCOMM annual conference Test-of-Time award for best paper published at a SIGCOMM-sponsored venue

10-12 years ago Sponsorship of the ACM-W scholarship, enabling a female student to attend the

SIGCOMM annual conference Student Travel Grants for attending SIGCOMM-sponsored conferences GeoDiversity Travel Grants for junior faculty in under-represented regions to

attend the SIGCOMM annual conference Coordination of the SIGCOMM community discussion mailing list at 

http://www.postel.org/sigcomm/ Papers from the SIGCOMM annual conference, selected other SIGCOMM-

sponsored conferences, and CCR freely available online

SIGCSE benefits for FY'11:

Member Benefits provided to SIGCSE Members:    * 4 issues of ACM Inroads (magazine for the computing education community)          o including peer reviewed articles, columns and invited editorials         o formally reviewed reports of the ITiCSE working groups.    * Proceedings of SIGCSE sponsored conferences on CD

o Proceedings of the SIGCSE Technical Symposium o Proceedings of the ITiCSE Conference. o Proceedings of the ICER Workshop

   * Reduced registration rates for the annual symposium, the ITiCSE conference, and the ICER Workshop.    * Free access to SIGCSE publication archives through the ACM Portal.    * Access to the SIGCSE-ANNOUNCE and SIGCSE-MEMBERS mailing lists.    * Opportunity to participate in SIGCSE committees on topics of current interest.    * Modest support for researchers who wish to investigate and introduce new ideas in

the learning and teaching of computing through SIGCSE Special Project Grants.    * Opportunity to network within a community of computing professionals.

Community Benefits provided by SIGCSE:   * Sponsorship of an annual symposium, ITiCSE conference, and ICER Workshop.    * Working "in-cooperation" with numerous other conferences.    * Modest travel support for the dissemination of outstanding SIGCSE/ITiCSE/ICER presentations to other "in-cooperation" conferences.    * Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education and for Lifetime Service.    * Resources regarding computing education.    * Reports from SIGCSE committees on topics of general interest, such as teaching discrete mathematics.    * Opportunity to build special communities related to computing education.

SIGDA benefits for FY'11:

Member Benefits provided to SIGDA Members:• SIGDA's E-Newsletter (containing headline news in EDA, the new “What is…?” column, and information on upcoming conferences and funding opportunities), emailed to SIGDA members regularly. • Full, free access to all proceedings of SIGDA sponsored conferences/symposia/workshops available in the ACM Digital Library • Reduced registration rates at conferences/symposia/workshops sponsored by SIGDA. • Reduced registration rates at conferences/symposia/workshops held "in cooperation" with SIGDA. • Eligibility to apply for SIGDA travel grants (financial need is required and some restrictions apply, see program description for details).

Community Benefits provided by SIGDA:• Sponsorship or co-sponsorship of the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), IEEE/ACM Intl. Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), IEEE/ACM Asian-South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), ACM/IEEE Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK) including ACM/IEEE Intl. Conference on CoDesign and System Synthesis (CODES-ISSS), ACM Intl. Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), ACM Intl. Symposium on FPGAs (FPGA), ACM/IEEE Intl. Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), ACM/IEEE Intl. Symposium on System Level Interconnect Prediction (SLIP), ACM Great Lakes VLSI Symposium (GLSVLSI), ACM/IEEE Workshop on Timing Issues In The Specification And Synthesis Of Digital Systems (TAU). • In-cooperation sponsorship and other support for several related conferences, symposia, and workshops. • Sponsorship or co-sponsorship of the SIGDA/DAC University Booth, SIGDA Ph.D. Forum at DAC, Design Automation Summer School at DAC, SIGDA CADathlon at ICCAD. • Dissemination of SIGDA and EDA-related information on the sigda.org web site.• Sponsorship or co-sponsorship of the IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla Best Paper Award, ACM/SIGDA Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in EDA, ACM/SIGDA

Outstanding New Faculty Award, ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award, and ACM/SIGDA Pioneering Achievement Award

SIGDOC benefits for FY'11: 

Member Benefits provided to SIGDOC Members:

SIGDOC's redesigned Website (www.sigdoc.org) and complimentary materials related to the site

SIGDOC's e-Newsletter announced four times per year for SIGDOC members (membership contributions encouraged)

Discounted participation rates at SIGDOC's annual conference Reduced registration at conferences held "in cooperation" with SIGDOC (e.g., the

WWW, UE+, and DocEng Conferences) Broad professional contacts and valuable networking opportunities Considerable opportunity for member volunteers and for board involvement and

reward Free access to SIGDOC conference proceedings via the ACM Digital Library Discounted student memberships available at highly-competitive rate.

 Community benefits provided by SIGDOC: In cooperation agreements with interdisciplinary conferences (e.g., the WWW and

UE+ Conferences) Graduate Student Competition Award sponsoring travel and publication offered

annually Rigo and Diana Awards for individual and institutional contributions to the field

offered alternative years SIGDOC-ANNOUNCE mailing listserv SIGDOC Website, including electronic version of SIGDOC e-newsletter Interactions with SIGDOC's sister communication design societies (e.g., STC,

IEEE PCS, and CPSTC) Respond to incoming communication design questions, research, and media

inquiries. 

SIGECOM benefits for FY'11:

Member Benefits provided to SIGEcom Members: Reduced registration at ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC). Reduced registration at other conferences co-sponsored or in-cooperation with

SIGecom. SIGecom-members announcement mailing list. Access to EC proceedings in ACM digital library.

Community Benefits provided by SIGecom: Annual ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce. SIGecom-talk mailing list for community announcements and discussions. Quarterly electronic newsletter, SIGecom Exchanges.

SIGEVO benefits for FY'11:

Member Benefits provided to SIGEVO Members: Discounted registration fee for SIGEVO’s annual GECCO Conference SIGEVO’s quarterly on-line newsletter (issued quarterly since May, 2006) Eligibility for consideration for awards to be conferred by SIGEVO (under

development) Access to content in the ACM Digital Library provided by SIGEVO, including

proceedings, workshop proceedings, tutorial notes, and late-breaking papers from the annual GECCO conference

Community Benefits provided by SIGEVO: Sponsorship of GECCO conference Sponsorship of the FOGA workshop Sponsorship of Student Travel Awards for participation in GECCO Sponsorship of Best Paper Awards in each track Sponsorship of Graduate Student Workshop and its awards Sponsorship of three competitions: Human Competitive Awards, Developmental

Systems Competition, and Physical Traveling Salesperson Competition Contribution of all GECCO print content to ACM Digital Library

SIGGRAPH benefits for FY'11:

Member Benefits provided to ACM SIGGRAPH Members: E-Quarterly (4 times per year) siggraph.org <http://siggraph.org> email alias CreativeHeads jobs list and services Voting rights in ACM SIGGRAPH Elections Discounts for all ACM SIGGRAPH merchandise, e. g., the SIGGRAPH Video

Review, Conference Proceedings, etc. Registration Discounts for all conferences/workshops/symposia that are in-

cooperation, co-sponsored, or sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH Access to all ACM SIGGRAPH related content in the ACM Digital Library (This

includes SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, and about 20 or more small conferences) Access to the captured content of SIGGRAPH Conferences in the ACM Digital

Library and SOMA Encore system

Member Benefits provided to ACM SIGGRAPH Associate Members: E-Quarterly (4 times per year) siggraph.org <http://siggraph.org> email alias CreativeHeads jobs list and services

Community Benefits provided by ACM SIGGRAPH: Sponsorship or in-cooperation support of the leading conferences in the field Support for students through Student Volunteer program, SpaceTime Student

Exhibition and Competition, and Student Chapters Over 90 Professional and Student Chapters worldwide promoting computer

graphics and interactive techniques

Resources and Web site for Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques community

Resources and Web site for Digital Arts community Resources and Web site for Computer Graphics educators Awards program that includes Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime

Achievement in Digital Art, Distinguished Service Award, Steven Anson Coons Award, Computer Graphics Achievement Award and the Significant New Researcher Award and Outstanding Service Award

CGEMS, an online refereed repository for instructional materials related to Computer Graphics, Digital Arts and Media.

ACM SIGGRAPH Education Index, a comprehensive online interactive database of academic programs that offer computer graphics, digital arts, interactive media and games curricula. The Index can be a valuable resource for students researching schools, for educators seeking to connect with other educators, and for professionals who want to broaden their skills.

Social Networking through LinkedIn and Facebook Calendar of Computer Graphics events

SIGIR benefits for FY'11:

 Member Benefits provided to SIGIR Members: Subscription to SIGIR Forum newsletter, published three times per year (one

issue is the SIGIR Conference Proceedings on CD/DVD, mailed to all members). Reduced registration at conferences sponsored by SIGIR (SIGIR, CIKM, JCDL,

WSDM). Reduced registration at conferences held "in cooperation" with SIGIR (list varies

from year to year). Access to the following content in the ACM Digital Library:

SIGIR, CIKM, JCDL, and WSDM conference proceedings; SIGIR Forum Some conferences and workshops held in cooperation with SIGIR.

Option to upgrade to the Member Value Plus / Proceedings Package (includes copies of CIKM and JCDL conference proceedings as distributed at the conference).

Option to upgrade to the Member Value Plus / DiSC Package (an annual DVD that contains SIGIR, Forum, JCDL, CIKM, and many other conference proceedings and newsletters).

Community Benefits provided by SIGIR: Sponsorship of the SIGIR conference, co-sponsorship (with SIGWEB) of the

CIKM and JCDL conferences, and co-sponsorship of the WSDM conference (with SIGKDD, SIGMOD, and SIGWEB).

Best Paper, Best Student Paper, Best Doctoral Consortium Paper and triennial Salton awards at the SIGIR conference.

Vannevar Bush award at the JCDL conference (co-sponsored with SIGWEB). Student travel support to the SIGIR conference. SIGIR-ANNOUNCE and SIG-IR List mailing lists.

SIGIR Web site, including electronic version of SIGIR Forum.

SIGITE benefits for FY’11:

Member Benefits provided to SIGITE Members:•    The opportunity to be part of and participate in an active national and international community of information technology (IT) educators and researchers through various SIGITE initiatives, including but not limited to:o    IT model curriculum initiative – four and two yearo    IT Research initiative•    Subscription to the bi-annual “Research in IT” which publishes peer-reviewed articles from the IT academic community•    Subscription to the monthly SIGITE news bulletin which consists of updates from the academic IT community, conference/events notices, and job postings•    Access to SIGITE community listservs for those interested in an ongoing discussion of IT education and research•    Reduced registration at the annual SIGITE conference•    Support for attendance at the SIGITE conference for student members•    Community recognition, including, but not limited to, Best SIGITE Conference Paper award

SIGITE Community Benefits•    Access to SIGITE Website

SIGKDD benefits for FY’11:

Member Benefits provided to SIGKDD Members: Receive the hardcopy SIGKDD Explorations newsletter twice a year. Substantial discount on the registration fee for the annual KDD international

conference.  A single registration fee includes passes to all paper sessions, free tutorials, workshops, and food services, including lunches, breakfasts, receptions, and coffee and snack breaks.

Reduced registration rates at conferences co-sponsored by SIGKDD Access to following content on ACM Digital Library

1. Proceedings of conferences sponsored by SIGKDD 2. some conferences and workshops sponsored by SIGKDD

Voting rights in SIGKDD elections and in decisions put up for a vote at SIGKDD business meetings held usually at the annual conference.

Copy of CD ROM containing SIGKDD proceedings in years when it is produced Financial support for some student members to attend the SIGKDD conference

(competitive) Publication of PhD dissertation abstract of student members on SIGKDD website. Notification of conferences, through mail and the SIGKDD electronic member

mailing list SIGKDD-ANNOUNCE

Community Benefits provided by SIGKDD: Sponsorship of KDD annual conference, including

o KDD Best Research Paper, Best Application Paper and Best Student Paper awards at the SIGKDD conference.

o Student travel support to the KDD conference. Co-sponsorship of WSDM conference on Web Search and Data Mining Sponsorship of the KDD Cup and maintenance of the KDD Cup website Annual SIGKDD Innovation and Service awards Annual SIGKDD Dissertation Award SIGKDD Web site, offering archives of SIGKDD Explorations Support for industry standardization efforts

SIGMETRICS benefits for FY’11:

Member Benefits Provided to SIGMETRICS Members: Discounted registration fee for all SIGMETRICS sponsored/co-sponsored

conferences and workshops, as well as "in cooperation" events Access to SIGMETRICS-related content in ACM Digital Library Quarterly newsletter "Performance Evaluation Review"

(http://www.sigmetrics.org/per.shtml), which contains open-call research articles, themed issues on special topics, and abstracts from SIG-related workshops. PER is printed and mailed to members 4 times per year, with one of the issues dedicated to the annual SIGMETRICS conference proceedings.

Moderated mailing list for SIGMETRICS members used judiciously for SIG communications (e.g., awards, nominations, and news items)

Support letters for eligible members applying for advanced ACM membership grades (Senior Member, Distinguished Member, Fellow)

Community Benefits Provided by SIGMETRICS: Sponsorship of the annual ACM SIGMETRICS conference Sponsorship, co-sponsorship, or in cooperation arrangements with relevant

conferences and workshops. List varies each year, but often includes HotMetrics, IMC, MAMA, QEST, SenSys, ValueTools, and WOSP.

Contribution of content to ACM digital library SIGMETRICS Web site for promoting the SIG, including its conferences,

activities, people, partners, and history Best Paper award and Kenneth C. Sevcik Outstanding Student Paper award at

annual SIGMETRICS conference Nomination of selected papers for CACM Research Highlights Achievement Award to honour career contributions to performance evaluation Rising Star Researcher Award to recognize talented young researchers Test of Time Award to honour past work with significant lasting impact Student travel support to attend SIGMETRICS conference (varies each year) Moderated "performance" mailing list (performance@merlot.usc.edu) for bulk

monthly communications to the broader performance evaluation community (e.g., conference announcements, calls for papers, awards, job postings, software tools, questions)

SIGMICRO benefits for FY’11:

Member Benefits provided to SIGMICRO Members: Access to all SIGMICRO content in the ACM DL Reduced registration to SIGMICRO-sponsored conferences

Community Benefits provided by SIGMICRO:   SIGMICRO online newsletter – under the editorship of Russ Joseph. Newsletter to include results of SIGMICRO History project with oral histories of

pioneers in microarchitecture. Student travel grants to SIGMICRO sponsored conferences Hardship grants to attend MICRO conference SIGMICRO web site

SIGMIS benefits for FY’11:

Member Benefits Provided to SIGMIS Members: Subscription to The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems (Data Base,

for short), a peer-reviewed quarterly publication devoted to communicating advances in research and best practice in MIS. For current and previous issues of Data Base, please visit the SIGMIS website or The Data Base: http://the-database.org.

Continue to inform members through the SIGMIS listserv, SIGMIS-members@acm.org.

Community Benefits Provided by SIGMIS: Continue to inform the community through the SIGMIS website,

http://www.acm.org/sigmis. SIGMIS CPR (Computer Personnel Research) Conference. For more

information, please visit http://www.acm.org/sigmis.o Present the outstanding conference paper award, entitled “Magid Igbaria

Outstanding Conference Paper of the Year Award.” In-cooperation with the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS).

o Sponsor the Doctoral Dissertation Paper Award.o Hold the annual networking reception for SIGMIS members.

In-cooperation with the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). Continue to represent ACM as a member of a select group to develop model

curriculum for education in IS, both at the undergraduate and graduate level. Please visit http://www.acm.org/education/curricula.html.

Continue to fund a representative to the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).

SIGMM benefits for FY’11:

Member Benefits provided to SIGMM Members: Subscription to SIGMM e-newsletter (SIGMM Records), stored and searchable in

ACM DL, issued quarterly(containing headline news from SIGMM members, research results, funding opportunities, short project descriptions)

A copy of the ACM SIGMM Multimedia conference – premier venue for SIGMM and all ACM Multimedia-Collocated Workshop Proceedings on a CD.

Subscription to SIGMM mailing list  – containing information about:  SIGMM sponsored or in-cooperation conferences and workshops  Positions (postdocs, graduate students, faculty) in the area of multimedia

Access to the following content in the ACM Digital Library:   ACM Multimedia conference proceedings  Some conferences and workshops held in cooperation with SIGMM.

Access to ‘Members Only’ area on the SIGMM web site. Reduced registration fee for SIGMM students at fully sponsored SIGMM venues

 Community Benefits Provided by SIGMM: Full Sponsorship and organization of the ACM SIGMM Multimedia Conference

and several ACM Multimedia-Collocated Workshops Full Sponsorship and organization of NOSSDAV (International Workshop on

Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video) Full Sponsorship and Organization of the ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys)

Conference Full Sponsorship and Organization of the ACM Multimedia Information Retrieval

(MIR) Conference Technical Achievement Award given annually at the ACM SIGMM Multimedia

conference Best Paper, Best Student Paper Awards, Best Demonstration, Best Open Source

Software, Best Short Paper, Best Art Exhibit at the ACM Multimedia conference. Co-sponsorship of several SIGMM-relevant conferences and workshops. Most of the SIGMM Website available as a resource to the whole multimedia

community. Financial support for SIGMM website maintenance and improvements Financial support of SIGMM multimedia arts program at the ACM Multimedia

conference Financial Support of SIGMM Beijing Chapter Access to ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and

Applications Journal (TOMCCAP) Best associate editor award for TOMCCAP editorial board given annually at the

ACM Multimedia conference Best PhD Thesis Award given annually at the ACM SIGMM Multimedia

conference

SIGMOBILE benefits for FY'11:

Member Benefits provided to SIGMOBILE Members: The quarterly journal and newsletter “Mobile Computing and Communications

Review” (MC2R), serving both as a newsletter keeping SIGMOBILE members informed, and as a scientific journal publishing high-quality peer-reviewed research papers on mobile computing, and wireless & mobile networking.

Access to proceedings of SIGMOBILE-sponsored and co-sponsored conferences in the ACM Digital Library, as well as selected conference proceedings for other conference held in-cooperation with SIGMOBILE..

A monthly e-mail SIGMOBILE newsletter, including SIGMOBILE announcements, pointers to relevant mainstream news articles of interest to

SIGMOBILE members, a calendar of upcoming events of interest to our members, and pointers to developer news for active developers in the area of mobile computing and wireless networking.

Qualify for the lowest registration rates at conferences and workshops sponsored by SIGMOBILE, and for the many events that are “in cooperation” with SIGMOBILE. SIGMOBILE sponsors five conferences each year (MobiCom, MobiHoc, MobiSys, SenSys, and Ubicomp).

Opportunities to share ideas, learn of new results and practices, network with colleagues, and be active in a vibrant community of colleagues in all areas of mobility of systems, users, data, and computing.

Through the Member Value Plus program, automatically receive a CDROM after each of SIGMOBILE's five conferences, containing the full conference Proceedings.

Community Benefits provided by SIGMOBILE: Organization and sponsorship of five annual conferences (MobiCom, MobiHoc,

MobiSys, SenSys, and Ubicomp), and promotion of emerging new areas through exclusive sponsorship of numerous workshops each year (e.g., HotMobile, MobiOpt, VANET).

A range of full-day and half-day tutorials at many SIGMOBILE conferences, offering attendees an easy way to broaden their knowledge.

Announcements via a moderated email distribution list about events of interest to those in the mobile computing and wireless networking community, such as conference Calls for Papers, and Calls for Participation.

The SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award, given to recognize an individual who has made a significant and lasting contribution to research on mobile computing, and communications & wireless networking.

The SIGMOBILE Distinguished Service Award, given to recognize an individual who has made exceptional contributions to ACM SIGMOBILE, its conferences, publications, or its local activities.

Other awards including the Best Paper Awards given by the Program Committees of MobiCom, MobiSys, MobiHoc, SenSys and UbiComp conferences, and the Best Presentation Award given at MobiCom

Support for students at SIGMOBILE conferences and workshops, through reduced registration fees, student travel awards for some conferences, student poster sessions, and hosting the ACM Student Research Competition at some conferences.

Financial support for community resources including CRAWDAD, and N^2 Women. CRAWDAD, the Community Resource for Archiving Wireless Data At Dartmouth, also develops better tools for collecting, anonymizing, and analyzing the data. N^2 Women, Networking Networking Woman, fosters connections among the under-represented women in computer networking and related research fields.

The SIGMOBILE web site at http://www.sigmobile.org, including a wealth of information for the community, such as complete details on SIGMOBILE conferences and workshops; information on SIGMOBILE membership, chapters, awards, and publications; and a Ph.D. thesis collection.

SIGMOD benefits for FY'11: 

Member Benefits provided to SIGMOD Members:There are two levels of membership SIGMOD Online and SIGMOD Print, in addition to Student membership.

Online members receive: SIGMOD Online

o     Information about SIGMODo     SIGMOD Record electronically (4 issues per year)o     SIGMOD/PODS conference proceedings online (available one month before the conference)o    SIGMOD DiSC and Anthology (in abridged versions containing

material for which copyright permission for online publication has been obtained)

o     Database resources (e.g., public domain software, list of graduating grad students)

Access to SIG sponsored and co-sponsored events in the ACM Digital Library

Discounted registration fees at SIGMOD (co-) sponsored and in-cooperation events, including the SIGMOD/PODS conference

Discounts on purchases of SIGMOD materials, such as the SIGMOD Anthology Silver Edition (2 DVDs collecting all Anthology volumes)

SIGMOD Print members receive: All benefits of Online members, plus SIGMOD Record print edition ( 4 issues per year)

SIGMOD Student members receive: All benefits of Online Members, plus SIGMOD/PODS conference proceedings in CD format Annual SIGMOD DiSC (DVD format) Periodic SIGMOD Anthology volumes (CD/DVD format)

The SIGMOD MEMBER PLUS package, which can be added to any SIGMOD Membership, includes the following:

Annual SIGMOD DiSC (DVD format) SIGMOD/PODS conferences proceedings in CD format Periodic SIGMOD Anthology volumes (CD/DVD format)

SIGMOD Digital Symposium Collection (DiSC) is a regular update to the SIGMOD Digital Library, usually including videos of keynote talks at a number of conferences as well as proceedings from ACM, IEEE, and other conferences.

SIGMOD Anthology is a CD/DVD collection of digitized (or originally digital) database publications (at last count about 40 separate publications and half a dozen books) produced every few years as an expansion of the SIGMOD Digital Library.

Community Benefits provided by SIGMOD: Online access to

Information about SIGMOD Database resources (e.g., public domain software, list of graduating grad

students) Purchase of SIGMOD Anthology Silver Edition 2 DVD collection Historical materials collected by or commissioned by SIGMOD (e.g., an oral

history of Charles Bachman, one of the pioneers of database field)

SIGMOD supports the following activities that benefit the Community: Support for DBLP - a bibliography of computer science publications

(http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/) Sponsorship of SIGMOD and PODS conferences annually, co-sponsorship

of SIGKDD and other conferences/workshops on occasion SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovation Award and SIGMOD Contributions

Award SIGMOD Best Paper and Test-of-Time Best Paper awards Undergraduate scholarships to enable undergraduates to attend

SIGMOD/PODS Conferences SIGMOD/VLDB Digital Library Donation Program - contributes

SIGMOD Anthology Silver Edition DVDs to research institutions in needy countries

Book donation program - contributes books collected from SIGMOD/PODS conference attendees to research institutions in needy countries

SIGOPS benefits for FY'11:

Member Benefits provided to SIGOPS Members: Subscription to Operating Systems Review, published 3-4 times a year Reduced registration at SIGOPS-sponsored conferences and workshops Announcements through SIGOPS electronic mailing list Access to SIGOPS content in the ACM Digital Library:

TOCS Operating Systems Review proceedings of SIGOPS-sponsored conferences

Member Plus package for conference proceedings (SOSP, EuroSys, ASPLOS)

Community Benefits provided by SIGOPS: Sponsorship of the following conferences and workshops:

ASPLOS EuroSys OSDI (held every other year) PODC SOSP (held every other year)

Student travel support to conferences Awards

Mark Weiser Award Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing (w/SIGACT) SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award for influential papers

SIGOPS website

SIGPLAN benefits for FY'11:

Member Benefits Provided to SIGPLAN Members:

Reduced registration rates at SIGPLAN-sponsored and co-sponsored events. Access to SIGPLAN materials in the ACM Digital Library. Electronic subscription to SIGPLAN Notices, the monthly newsletter of

SIGPLAN, with approximately 6 issues per year that are conference or workshop proceedings (POPL, PLDI, ICFP, OOPSLA, ASPLOS, LCTES). (Also print subscription to print members.)

Annual CD including proceedings of SIGPLAN-sponsored conferences and workshops, plus issues of SIGPLAN Notices.

Email newsletter of important events to SIGPLAN community. Financial support for students to attend SIGPLAN Conferences (PAC). Financial support for travel companions for members needing assistance to attend

SIGPLAN conferences, in particular, members with small children or disabilities (PAC).

Financial support for transportation and on-site child care for members participating in SIGPLAN-sponsored events who have children between two and sixteen years of age (PAC).

Financial support for members living outside of North America and Europe to attend SIGPLAN Conferences (PAC).

Voting rights in SIGPLAN elections. Opportunity to serve as a SIGPLAN Officer. Member Plus packages: POPL, PLDI, ICFP, OOPSLA

Community Benefits Provided by SIGPLAN: Conference sponsorship: ASPLOS, ICFP, ISMM, LCTES, OOPSLA, PLDI,

POPL, PPoPP, VEE, and others, as well as many workshops. SIGPLAN web pages. Support for Oregon Summer School in Programming Languages. Support for educators to attend SIGPLAN conferences. Latex and Microsoft Word templates for technical papers. Awards: Programming Languages Achievement Award, Distinguished Service

Award, Programming Languages Software Award, Doctoral Dissertation Award, Most Influential Paper Awards for ICFP, OOPSLA, PLDI, and POPL, and the John Vlissides Award.

SIGPLAN-nominated CACM Research Highlights papers. Opportunities to serve as a volunteer in various capacities in support of SIGPLAN

activities.

SIGSAC benefits for FY’11:

Member Benefits provided to SIGSAC Members: CD-ROM with proceedings of all SIGSAC conferences: CCS (including all CCS

workshops), SACMAT, ASIACCS,  WiSec (all on one CD) Reduced registration fees for SIGSAC conferences. Access to all SIGSAC material in the ACM Digital Library

Community Benefits provided by SIGSAC: Sponsorship of CCS, SACMAT, Asia CCS, and WISEC (Wireless Networks

Security) conferences SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award

SIGSAC Outstanding Contribution Award

SIGSAM benefits for FY'11:

Member Benefits provided to SIGSAM Members: Four issues of the quarterly publication "ACM Communications in Computer

Algebra" (distributed electronically, with two double issues printed and mailed to members);

A DVD containing the current proceedings of the International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC), with selected open source computer algebra software, sent with an issue of our publication;

Access to SIGSAM content on the SIGSAM website and in the ACM Digital Library, which includes ISSAC proceedings.

Members typically enjoy discounted registration to attend the International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC).

Community Benefits provided by SIGSAM Regular sponsorship of the annual ISSAC conference. Funding of the ISSAC Distinguished Paper and ISSAC Distinguished Student

Author Awards, presented annually at the ISSAC conference. Funding and adjudication of the Richard Dimick Jenks Memorial Prize for

Excellence in Software Engineering applied to Computer Algebra, presented bi-annually at the ISSAC conference.

SIGSIM benefits for FY'11:

Member Benefits Provided to SIGSIM Members: SIGSIM-members-only access to ACM SIGSIM M&S Knowledge Repository Proceedings (CD) of the annual Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) mailed to

each SIGSIM member Proceedings (hard copy) of the annual International Workshop on Principles of

Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS) mailed to each SIGSIM member Reduced registration fees for many conferences including WSC and PADS. SIGSIM members are granted full on-line access to the proceedings of the

SIGSIM sponsored / supported conferences in the ACM Digital Library.

Community Benefits Provided by SIGSIM: Distinguished Contributions Award Ph.D. Colloquium and Poster Session at the annual WSC Best Ph.D. Student Paper Award at the annual WSC Sponsorship of annual conferences: WSC, PADS, and MSWiM In-cooperation support of many conferences including: DEVS, DS-RT, EOMAS,

MASCOTS, MSI, SIMUTools, SpringSim, and SW LinkedIn Professional Group named “ACM SIGSIM”, which provides

professional networking among the Modeling and Simulation (M&S) professionals

Announcements via a moderated email distribution list about events of interest, Calls for Papers, and Calls for Participation

SIGSOFT benefits for FY'11:

Member Benefits Provided to SIGSOFT Members: Bi-monthly newsletter, Software Engineering Notes, in combined hard

copy/electronic format.  At least two issues a year list the table of contents and abstracts of conference proceedings, including FSE and ICSE. Contents include articles submitted by members as well as several regular columns, one of which is the popular forum "Risks to the Public."

Web access to the SIGSOFT portion of the ACM Digital Library, including articles from all SIGSOFT sponsored and co-sponsored conferences.

Discounted registration at conferences and workshops sponsored, co-sponsored and in cooperation with SIGSOFT.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) are available as a Member Plus package.

 Community Benefits Provided by SIGSOFT:

Networking and leadership opportunities through participation in SIGSOFT events. 

Opportunities to serve as a volunteer in various capacities in relation to SIGSOFT activities.

Participation in honoring distinguished individuals through the Outstanding Research Award, Distinguished Service Award, Influential Educator Award and Impact Paper Awards, as well as the ICSE Most Influential Paper Award.  Distinguished Paper Awards are also given to a small number of papers accepted at SIGSOFT-sponsored conferences.

Stimulating interaction among practitioners, researchers, and educators through events; fostering professional development of software engineers through participation in the Computing Curriculum for Software Engineering Steering Committee; representing software engineers to professional, legal, and political entities.

Providing assistance to graduate students presenting papers at SIGSOFT-sponsored conferences, via the Conference Attendance Program for Students grants, as well as the ACM SIGBED/SIGSOFT Frank Anger Memorial Student Travel Award given annually to student members to promote interdisciplinary research.

Providing for childcare assistance to parents of young children who are presenting papers at SIGSOFT-sponsored conferences.

The SIGSOFT web site, www.sigsoft.org. A SIGSOFT group on LinkedIn.

SIGSPATIAL benefits for FY’11:

Member Benefits provided to SIGSPATIAL Members:

Access to the content of the SIGSPATIAL Conference as well as associated workshops via a subscription to the appropriate subset of the ACM Digital Library

Subscription to the SIGSPATIAL Newsletter in electronic format issued twice a year initially

Reduced registration at conferences sponsored by SIGSPATIAL Reduced registration at conferences held "in cooperation" with SIGSPATIAL Access to the content of any other conference/workshop sponsored by

SIGSPATIAL or held in cooperation with SIGSPATIAL Conference via a subscription to the appropriate subset of the ACM Digital Library

Community Benefits provided by SIGSPATIAL: Sponsoring the SIGSPATIAL Conference Best Paper Award at the SIGSPATIAL Conference Best Student Paper Award at the SIGSPATIAL Conference Ph.D. Poster Session at the SIGSPATIAL Conference Peer-reviewed Ph.D. Showcase to enable newly-minted Ph.D. students to present

the results of their work to the SIGSPATIAL members Reduced student registration at the SIGSPATIAL Conference Maintenance of the SIGSPATIAL.org web site

SIGUCCS benefits for FY'11:

Member benefits for SIGUCCS Members: Discounted conference registration fees Copy of the proceedings of the Fall Conference on CD Discussion lists Digital Library access Networking Discount on SIGUCCS-related proceedings and CDs Opportunity to gain valuable professional experience by serving

on conference organizing committees and Board-appointed committees

Community benefits provided by SIGUCCS: Penny Crane Award for distinguished service to SIGUCCS and the

profession Hall of Fame Awards to recognize service to SIGUCCS Sponsorship of two conferences Sponsorship of annual communications competition and awards Community discussion mailing list On-line community for networking and discussion Webinar series on technology support and management issues Grants to attend SIGUCCS conferences

SIGWEB benefits for FY’11:

Member Benefits provided to SIGWEB Members:

reduced rates at SIGWEB sponsored, co-sponsored, and co-operating events free access to ACM DL content of events sponsored by SIGWEB reduced subscription rates to New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia free subscription to the SIGWEB members email list, with calls, advance and

final event programs, and news of interest to the community posted regularly

Community Benefits provided by SIGWEB: sponsorship or co-sponsorship of the ACM Hypertext Conference (HT), ACM

Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng), ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), and ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)

In-cooperation sponsorship and other support for several related conferences, symposia, and workshops

Maintenance of the sigweb.org Web site sponsorship or co-sponsorship of the Douglas C. Engelbart Best Paper Award,

Theodore H. Nelson Newcomer Award, and Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award